Somebody once said that Psychology is the discipline that explores the 
contradictions between the first and the third person point of view.  I can see 
that.  However, if I am to decide which side of the contradiction to privilege, 
I would choose the third person point of view.  After all, there billions of 
you and only one of me. 

 

N

 

Nicholas Thompson

Emeritus Professor of Ethology and Psychology

Clark University

 <mailto:[email protected]> [email protected]

 <https://wordpress.clarku.edu/nthompson/> 
https://wordpress.clarku.edu/nthompson/

 

 

From: Friam <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Marcus Daniels
Sent: Sunday, June 14, 2020 2:57 PM
To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [FRIAM] alternative response

 

Would you ask a Facebook image labeling algorithm how it converts a picture 
into a name?  

If I were to try to write a set of bots to reproduce FRIAM conversations, I’d 
probably do it with an agent-based approach, and dump my mental model of each 
person into a program, and then run the programs together, like a sort of 
core-war game.   

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Core_War

 

I think the dynamics of this game would be predictable sometimes, and other 
times it would have long transients.  Other times idiosyncratic word 
associations would redirect the conversation in unexpected directions. 

 

I’m not sure what you are asking.  It seems like you see the reflection on 
behavior as different from behavior.   To me it is all just behavior based on 
different inputs and types of outputs.

 

From: Friam <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > on 
behalf of Russ Abbott <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> >
Reply-To: "[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> " 
<[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> >, The Friday Morning 
Applied Complexity Coffee Group <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> >
Date: Sunday, June 14, 2020 at 1:30 PM
To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <[email protected] 
<mailto:[email protected]> >
Subject: Re: [FRIAM] alternative response

 

Marcus,  That's a very fancy description. How did you come up with it? And how 
did you find the words to express it?

 

-- Russ Abbott                                       
Professor, Computer Science
California State University, Los Angeles

 

 

On Sun, Jun 14, 2020 at 1:12 PM Jon Zingale <[email protected]> wrote:

Nick,

For what it is worth, I am not even sure we will come to agree
on the best way to describe the physics of the natural world.

Jon



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